102 Floricultural and Botanical Notices. 



been published, being a continuation of the extensive order 

 of Compositai. We must commend this work to all bota- 

 nists and lovers of plants. 



M. Hartweg, the London Horticultural Society's collec- 

 tor, in South America, has recently sent home a large 

 quantity of fine things. His last letters were dated at 

 Quito, where he had been staying for some months. On 

 the western side of Pichincha, he had found the long wish- 

 ed for Fuchs/a tryphylla, with two other new species ; a 

 Cestrum with a dark blue corolla, measuring three inches 

 in length, together with numerous other plants, bulbs, &c. 



Neio Chj'ysa7ithe7nums. — A great change has taken place 

 in this beautiful tribe of plants; by the production of seed- 

 lings, varieties have been raised by the English and French 

 florists, which so far surpass the old Chinese varieties, that 

 a large part of the latter are now scarcely worth cultiva- 

 tion. The Committee on Flowers of the Mass. Horticul- 

 tural Society, aware of the importance of encouraging the 

 introduction of these nev/ soris into our gardens, will offer 

 a prize, the present year, for collections of the best twelve or 

 more kinds, and we trust the announcement will alone be 

 sufficient to induce amateurs to give more attention to this 

 flower. For their information, therefore, we name the fol- 

 lowing, which are said to be among the best of the new 

 varieties : — 



Minerva, a quilled white flower, with yellow centre ; 

 Champion, lemon, with deep yellow centre, well filled up ; 

 Princess Marie, light blush, changing to purple ; Compac- 

 tum, white; Conductor, dark yellow, small, but well filled 

 up : Due de Canegliano, dark seed, with singularly twisted 

 petals ; Theresa, orange and red ; Victory, pure white ; 

 Vesta, also a good white ; Madame Pompadour, a handsome 

 light purple variety; Mirabile, white and buff; Chancellor, 

 a fine bold flower, yellowish white and pink; Ivanhoe, 

 reddish brown, sliglitly tipped with yellow ; Demosthenes, 

 dark yellow, with reddish brown centre, well filled up ; 

 Phidias, a beautifully formed carmine flower, with a slight 

 tinge of yellow ; Bijou, white, each petal tipped with pur- 

 ple; Campestroni, bright purple, with large flowers; 

 Eclipse, pure white ; Beauty, blush ; and many others. 



New Ii-ises. — Great improvement has recently been ef- 

 fected in the common Irises (/. germanica pallida, &c.), of 

 our gardens, by the French florists ; a few years since the 



